Asia Pacific Association of Tissue Banking (APASTB) was established with special interest in tissue banking, to encourage research in tissue banking in the Asia Pacific region and to promote scientific and social interaction among its member. It provides a platform to share the experience and update research and development between the surgeons and tissue bankers, it also provide opportunity to the member countries who form one organization under APASTB, to cooperate and collaborate with other tissue bank organization all over the world. The first inaugural meeting was held in conjunction with the Eight Joint Congress of the Asia - Pacific Federations of the International College of Surgeons on November 14, 1989 at the Central Plaza Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. APASTB
The first inaugural meeting of APASTB
